Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Mar 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"In recent years, the UK Government have printed and borrowed hundreds of billions of pounds, which have been gathered—I emphasise the word “gathered”—not earned by billionaires and the already wealthy. As a result, we have a cost of living crisis that makes energy price rises an acute crisis. Kerosene central …..."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 1st February 2022
Asked by:
Angus Brendan MacNeil (Independent - Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of personnel supporting (a) heritage and (b) smart meters in the local area networks in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland; and what level of obligation do utility companies have to fulfil heritage and smart metering to customers.
Answered by Greg Hands
Smart meters are replacing traditional gas and electricity meters as part of a national infrastructure upgrade that will make our energy system more efficient and flexible, helping to deliver net zero emissions by 2050. As such, smart meters are becoming the default meter offer in Great Britain. The Government has introduced a new four-year Targets Framework, which commenced on 1 January 2022, with individual annual smart meter installation requirements for energy suppliers to further drive rollout momentum.
Energy suppliers are responsible for the provision of metering to their customers, including ensuring that overall installer capacity is in place to meet their targets and customer demand across Great Britain.
Written Question
Tuesday 1st February 2022
Asked by:
Angus Brendan MacNeil (Independent - Na h-Eileanan an Iar)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate his Department has made of the amount to be raised from the 2018 Contracts for Difference auctions when those wind farms come on stream; and in the context of the wholesale price being higher than the strike price, what estimate his Department has made of the potential amount of repayment to Government revenues.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Low Carbon Contracts Company publishes regularly updated short-term forecasts of aggregate Contracts for Difference payments under a range of different scenarios to reflect uncertainty. The Office for Budget Responsibility also publishes a longer-term forecasts of aggregate Contracts for Difference costs including Contracts for Difference payments.
Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Gas and Electricity Costs
"I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate. He is absolutely right about Altnaharra, and the fuel poverty that is shared by his constituency and mine. The UK Government talk about levelling up, but one of the best things that could be done in that regard would be to …..."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Gas and Electricity Costs
"The hon. Lady is making a very good speech and she is absolutely right—it is not just the north of Scotland that is affected, although I, like the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (Jamie Stone), would argue that that is where things are most acute.
House of …..."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Gas and Electricity Costs
"The hon. Lady is making an interesting speech. I want to pick up on an interesting point made by the hon. Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse). At the moment, the UK consumes about 41.8 GWe. People can check that on their telephone apps quite easily. Some 16.9% of that electricity …..."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Gas and Electricity Costs
"The hon. Lady mentions Gazprom and how the UK is in hock to such gas producers from outside the UK. If we cast our minds back, do we not see that a mistake of George Osborne’s penny-pinching, bean-counting style of five, six or seven years ago was his reluctance to …..."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Gas and Electricity Costs
"Does my hon. Friend agree that this Government, going back to 2015, have taken their eye off the ball? They have scrapped the Department of Energy and have lost focus on energy. Then they have had 10 years trying to do a smart meter roll-out, which has been bungled, depriving …..."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Gas and Electricity Costs
"It is a subsidy from Scotland...."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 18 Jan 2022
Gas and Electricity Costs
"On the point about domestic security, the Minister will be aware that 5.6 % of the UK’s energy need, according to the GridCarbon app, comes from overseas. Does the Minister not think that, in the next round of CfDs, it should be paramount that the projects that could have happened …..."Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech
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